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Shakespeare in Flip-Flops

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Terry Teachout

Updated July 21, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

Boise, Idaho

In Idaho the license plates say "Famous Potatoes," and the nickname of Boise, the state capital, is "City of Trees." Both statements are true as far as they go: Boise is as green as Dublin, while Idaho's chief cash crop is so esteemed around these parts that you can even buy a tuber-shaped candy bar called the Idaho Spud. But Boise is also known, or should be, for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, whose theater is an outdoor pavilion across the street from the foothills of the Rockies, which...